| 14th Century Colour Palettes: Volume 2 Contributor(s): Railing, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0946311242 ISBN-13: 9780946311248 Publisher: Artists Bookworks OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Color Theory - Art | History - Renaissance |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.6" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Italy to France to Flanders, the art of painting in the 14th century was practiced in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colors" were dictated by painters to a Frenchman, Jehan Alcherius, while the Italian artist, Cennino Cennini, was especially attentive to the practice and the pigments to be used in fresco painting in The Book of Art / Il Libro dell' Arte, of c. 1390. His descriptions reveal the craft of Giotto, whose works make up the plates in this collection. |
Contributor Bio(s): Railing, Patricia: - Patricia Railing (PhD, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Philosophy of Art) is an art historian specialising in both the Russian Avant-Garde and the history of artists' pigments. She has compiled this collection, Colour Palettes, from treatises, 1st century B.C. to the 19th century, which culminates in the Documentary Dictionary of Historical Pigments. The series is complemented by a website, www.painterspalettes.net. |